Cuthbert Woodroffe Explained

Sir George Cuthbert Manning Woodroffe KBE[1] (known as Cuthbert; 17 May 1918 - 29 November 2012) was an Anglican Archbishop of the Province of the West Indies. He was a long serving Anglican Bishop of the Windward Islands from 1969 until 1986. For the last six years of that period, he served as Archbishop, Primate of the Anglican Church, Province of the West Indies.[2]

He was born on 17 May 1918 in Grenada and was educated at the Grenada Boys Grammar School. He received his tertiary education at Codrington College, Barbados[3] and was ordained in 1945.[4] His first post was as a curate in St Vincent[5] He held incumbencies in Barbados.[6] His last post before appointment to the episcopate saw him returning to St Vincent as Sub-Dean of its cathedral. He was consecrated a bishop on 29 September 1969 by Alan Knight.

References

  1. http://www.burkes-peerage.net/familyhomepage.aspx?FID=0&FN=WOODROFFEGEORGE Burkes Peerage
  2. http://www.anglicancommunion.org/communion/acc/meetings/acc5/participants.cfm Anglican Communion
  3. [Who's Who (UK)|“Who was Who”]
  4. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
  5. where he met Aileen Connell, the young woman who would become his wife and with whom he would raise a family. St Vincent Anglican History
  6. http://www.anglican.bb/stjoseph Diocese of Barbados